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4 Strategies to Reduce Rail Demurrage Costs
3PLs can take a proactive approach to significantly reduce demurrage fees charged by rail carriers. Here are four ways to minimize these costs.
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On Track for Major Savings: How RSI Logistics Helps Rail Shippers
Using a multi-faceted approach that involves data analytics and seamless communication, RSI Logistics secured 30% in savings for its clients through successful demurrage disputes.
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10 Tips for Shipping by Rail
Shipping by rail is a cost-effective and carbon-friendly way to move large volumes over long distances. However, managing rail shipments requires careful planning, coordination, and attention to detail. Here’s how to manage rail shipments effectively.
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What Can Rail Shippers Expect?
The rail industry finds itself at a critical juncture, poised for transformative progress that extends well beyond individual companies. Building on the progress freight rail companies made in 2023, this year holds the promise of a secure future marked by reliability, resilience, and commitment to sustainability.
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Strip It Down to the Studs?
Our publisher sounds off on Ancora Holdings’ attempted takeover at Norfolk Southern.
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Types of Freight Trains: Definition and Use of Modern Rail Cars
Freight trains have been the backbone of modern industries for centuries, ensuring the seamless movement of commodities from one place to another. As the transportation landscape evolved, so did the types of freight trains, with rail freight transport growing increasingly sophisticated to handle diverse cargo needs. If you’ve ever wondered about the intricacies of these […]
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Custom Dashboard Provides Rail Data Insights and Boosts Efficiencies
RSI Logistics developed a custom dashboard tailored to meet its client’s needs with unmatched precision and accuracy, enabling them to make firm, data-driven decisions that ignited confidence.
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CEVA Logistics Sends Formula One Cargo by Rail Intermodal
CEVA Logistics engineered a rail transport solution in North America for Scuderia Ferrari’s F1 racing team.
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How to Leverage Rail Intermodal
Intermodal shipping presents challenges, but it also offers great opportunities and benefits. Follow these strategies to help ensure your intermodal shipments move as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible.
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Rail Must Prioritize Safety Over Profits
Since the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio, the full impact of the devastation to that community is yet to be seen. Although more than 1,000 derailments happen each year, it’s unacceptable that they are considered a simple cost of doing business. Our communities and the industries that rely on railroads to carry their products need and expect the rail industry to do better.
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Rail to the Rescue?
When the supply chain turns volatile and the trucking market grows tough, can these alternatives to over-the-road transportation save the day?
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Loup Transloading Network: Creative Shipping Solutions Expand Market Reach
Learn how Loup creates seamless transportation solutions by combining the economics of long-haul rail service and the flexibility of over-the-road shipping to reimagine supply chain opportunities. The Challenge One of the leading roofing manufacturers in North America moves locally manufactured roofing shingles from a non-rail-served facility in the Inland Empire to Utah. This business moved […]
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Overcoming Challenges and Increasing Supply Chain Efficiency with Rail Transloading
Rail transload facilities allow shippers to realize supply chain benefits from a combination of rail and truck. Here’s how to choose the right one.
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Offering Turnkey Solutions to Support Transload Customers
When a chemical distributor needed to get their products to non-rail-served locations, RSI Logistics’ transloading operations and value-add services provided the solution. THE CHALLENGE A chemical distributor recently presented RSI Logistics with a challenge. They were awarded a contract for regional distribution of chemicals used in the water treatment process; however, they had a problem. […]
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Ensuring Customers’ Supply Chains Run as Smoothly as Possible
Q: What are The Logistix Company’s (TLC) core business units and areas of focus? A: TLC got its start working closely with distribution companies moving liquid bulk chemicals. After time, we expanded our business to moving a multitude of commodities in bulk tankers, dry vans, intermodally via rail, repackaging, warehousing, and international freight forwarding. Q: […]
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Intermodal is Just the Ticket
With rail facility and infrastructure upgrades nailed down and intermodal network improvements on track, these ports and sites are riding high on intermodal’s advantages.
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NOTED: The Supply Chain In Brief
From recent mergers and acquisitions to philanthropy initiatives, here’s what’s new and notable in the supply chain.
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Creating a Business-Friendly Environment
At the crux of Michigan’s central expressways, five Class A rail lines, and the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, you’ll find the City of Romulus, which residents refer to as the “Home of Opportunity.” The city’s access to transportation and 3,146 acres of undeveloped land have positioned Romulus as a logistics hub for developers from Michigan and across the nation.
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Rail Transportation: What Shippers Need to Focus On
Q: How have the recent rail mergers changed the rail landscape for shippers? A: Shippers have been averse to rail mergers due to concerns of a reduction in competition, imposed routing limitations, and an increase in service disruptions. The two most recent mergers between the CSXT-Pan Am Railway and Canadian National-Kansas City Southern are still […]
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